Liparis latifolia [Bl.]Lindley 1830 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Blepharoglossum Schlechter
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Common Name The Wide-Leafed Liparis - In China Kuan Ye Yang Er Suan
Flower Size to about 3/4" [about 2 cm]
Found from Sabah, China [Hainan], penisular Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines and New Guinea in lowlands, hillforest, rain forests and lower montane forests from 200 to 1700 meters in elevation as a cute, medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with clustered, fleshy, conical, somewhat bilaterally compressed, pale green aging to pale yellow pseudobulbs with 1 to 2, large red brown basal sheaths and carries a single, apical, oblanceolate, acute to subacute, fleshy leaf that is channeled towards the base and blooms in the spring and summer on an erect to arching, to 12" [30 cm] long, terete, many flowered, in a more or less dense, cylindrical raceme with several lanceolate, sterile bracts and spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, flesh-colored floral bracts carrying variable flowers in size and color.
Synonyms Cestichis latifolia (Lindl.) Pfitzer 1888; ; Leptorchis latifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Liparis robusta Hkr.f. 1890; Liparis scortechini Hkr.f. 1890; *Malaxis latifolia Bl. 1825; Stichorchis latifolia Pfitzer 1897; Stichorkis robusta ( Hook.f. ) Marg. 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.df 1857; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as L scortechini drawing ok; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as L robusta drawing fide; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911; Orchidaceae 6: 90 Ames 1920; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 66 Hefte 4 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand III Seidenfaden 1971 drawing fide; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #13 753 - 819 Liparinae 1983 drawing not = L japonica/photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing hmm; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb & Lun 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide;
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